Green, leafy spinach may soon power cellphones and laptops
...ower source) by creating multiple layers of PSI or assembling them on rough surfaces or 3-D surfaces, like skyscrapers that concentrate a huge amount of surface area within a relatively small space. ...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...apidly bind to each other and begin the process of assembling the on switch." The workshop's ability to quickly assemble the on switch is important because it reflects the need for cells to be able to react swiftly to a changing environment, according to Martine Roussel, Ph.D., member of St. Jude Genetics and T...Rare deficit maps thinking circuitry
...a set of parts and then construct a replica, as in assembling a puzzle a key cognitive deficit experienced by p...forming spatial tasks matching geometric objects, assembling puzzle-like pieces into a square, and attending to the location of faces and houses. In each case, o...A room with a view for the International Space Station: Completion of the cupola observation module
...trol the station's robotic arm - for attaching and assembling various station elements - and to communicate with other crewmembers in other parts of the station or outside during spacewalk activities. The cupola will also be used for observational applications in the areas of Earth observation and space science......agues reasoned that if Ago2 is uniquely capable of assembling into mRNA cleavage-competent complexes in vivo, then mouse cells lacking Ago2 but containing other Ago proteins should be incapable of carrying out experimentally-triggered, siRNA-mediated mRNA cleavage. The researchers observed just such a result wi...Carnegie Mellon U biologists identify critical player in yeast ribosome assembly
...somal protein to a critical step in the pathway to assembling a fully functional ribosome," explained John Woolford, professor of biological sciences at the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon. "Understanding the molecular basis of ribosome assembly offers a rational scheme for designing drugs to inter...Ancient Greeks help scientists build environmentally friendly nano devices
...hip. The nano-scaffolds are being investigated for assembling 3D electronic circuits, and to produce 'super-capacitors' for mobile devices. Similarly the nano-films possess new types of structural colour (such as red- or blue-coloured gold) which are environmentally-safe ways of ornamenting surfaces, as well as...Molecular midwives hold clues to the origin of life
...ogether to produce RNA by spontaneously mixing and assembling with the chemical building blocks of RNA," said Nicholas Hud, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In contemporary life, RNA is present in all cells and is responsible for transmitting genetic info...New, comprehensive tumor classification combines molecular biology and classic pathology
...ver relationships among different data elements by assembling data under sensible group hierarchies," writes Berman. "The most important value of this (new) classification is the disengagement of tumor type and tumor place of originThis permits tumors with similar molecular profiles to be classified according t...Marsupial among model organisms next in line for sequencing
...ts. The Houston group also is presently working on assembling a draft of the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrot...habditis briggsae). The St. Louis group is already assembling a working draft of the chicken genome, as well as sequencing the genomes of two species of fruitfly ...Powerful machines are coming in small packages
...even or eight orders of magnitude. (By comparison, assembling a jet airplane using centimeter-sized rivets involves three orders of magnitude.) Some of the technologies Paul is working on include micromachined gas-liquid contactor membranes for portable heat pumps, high-temperature microchannel arrays for incre...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...point where we tagged them. Piece by piece, we are assembling a picture of how these animals are using their environment." The tuna tag data allow scientists to document where animals go over seasons and even years, and are critical to understanding the dynamics of the Atlantic tuna populations. In recent years...Destructive wizardry of Ozz-E3 ligase appears key to building skeletal muscles in embryos and adults
...cess. Ozz directs destruction of β-catenin by assembling an active ubiquitin ligase complex, Ozz-E3, which breaks down this pool of the protein in muscle cells. Ozz-E3's role is to attach a chain of ubiquitin molecules to β-catenin. This process, called ubiquitination, targets protein substrates for ...'Panning for gold' in the maize genome
...genes. This approach will be an important part of assembling the short pieces of DNA yielded by the two enrichments methods into complete gene clusters. According to Silverthorne, "Together, these findings suggest that scientists could be able to sift out the approximately 450 million base pairs of...Diversity: What people, grain sorghum have in common
...ogical diversity, the meaning is no different. So assembling Hispanic, African-American and Caucasian students and professors to examine the genome of grain sorghum, and tap into the collection of 40,000 different varieties from around the world, seems like the sensible thing to do. Outreach to under-represen...Setting the evolutionary record straight
...the principle to the transformation of species and assembling the evidence that convinced the scientific world."...Rutgers to create ultra-tiny 'bio-nano' motors under National Science Foundation grant
... the study and process of working with devices and assembling structures by using atom- or molecule-sized building blocks. In this case, Rutgers scientists are using biological molecules derived from virus-based proteins to build a bio-nano motor that can perform a linear opening and closing motion. The motor,...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
...learned the reason for this: The actual process of assembling the new RNA is fast and efficient once binding occurs, but the binding doesn't last long enough to produce a complete replicate. "What we really need now," says Bartel, "is to work on the binding." Life was a garbage bag Less than four decades old...Nitric oxide may change basic understanding of cellular machinery
...t throughout the human body, plays a major role in assembling protein networks that direct fundamental cellular activities, such as whether cells live or die. Cell death, or apoptosis, is involved in a wide range of human ailments, including heart failure, Alzheimer's disease and asthma, said Jonathan Stamler, ......ds for Bio-sensing The paper describes a method of assembling neurons patterned on an integrated circuit device where the physiological properties can be modulated by subjecting them to chemicals. This provides a methodology for bio-sensing. 2) Self Assembly of Polymer Structures Induced by Electric Fields The...